The past several weeks have seen sustained unrest in Indonesian Papua. The proximate cause was the shameful treatment of Papuan students living in Surabaya, East Java who were alleged to have desecrated the Indonesian flag on Indonesia’s independence day. But this is just a trigger; the issues are far deeper. Today’s article in the Sydney […]
Category: Economics
Indonesia’s Getting a New Capital City ?!?
After over a year of speculation and rumor, Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo has announced his plan to move Indonesia’s capital from Jakarta to the island of Borneo. The study team has selected a site between Kutai Kertanegara and North Penajam Paser regencies, or roughly here, between the cities of Balikpapan and Samarinda. Here’s a pull-out […]
